Baxenden-based firm Holland’s Pies gets trial at Arsenal (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Baxenden-based firm Holland’s Pies gets trial at Arsenal
4:38pm Tuesday 31st January 2012 in Baxenden
EMIRATES HOPE Stan the Van Man with the Tony Adams statue at the Emirates
AN East Lancashire pie firm is gunning for a tasty deal with Premier League giants Arsenal.
Holland's Pies, based in Baxenden, took a lorry-load of supplies to the Emirates Stadium for fans to sample.
And mascot '’Stan the Van Man’ went along to promote the products outside the ground during a clash with Manchester United.
A spokesman said: “We took some samples down there as a test to see what people thought.
“We haven’t signed any deal yet. It was just a trial at this stage.”
Holland’s Pies, which makes around a million pies a week at its factory in Manchester Road, is no stranger to football fans as it currently supplies pies to clubs including Burnley, Leeds, West Brom, Bolton and Manchester City.
It was also the official shirt sponsors for the Clarets between 2007 and 2009.
An interactive museum is still running at the Museum of Science and Industry, in Manchester, commemorating the firm’s 160th anniversary.
It features a visual timeline, memorabilia, a day in the life of a pie display, and a 40-year-old burnt-to-a-crisp pie owned by Tony Johnson, from Bacup, who has taken it on trips around the world.
Holland’s was founded by John Whittaker, who owned a confectionery shop in Haslingden in 1851.
Comments(10)
Dickiepayshey
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10:24pm Tue 31 Jan 12
soap opera
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10:58pm Tue 31 Jan 12
captain ian
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11:39pm Tue 31 Jan 12
kateash
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2:26pm Thu 2 Feb 12
dom jolly
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10:58pm Sun 5 Feb 12
bunch of arrogant pr***s
i'd rather eat dog muck than what they make, oh hang on-dog muck/hollands pies?
photons
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11:49am Fri 10 Feb 12
Having lived around Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire, I've never really come across holands pies, especially in the chiller section.
Warburtons is a popular brand, so maybe southerners are not so northern phobic on northern bands.
BTW, Hollands pies are my favourite brands of pies. Better than any other in the supermarket. Good luck to them.
harrythehamster
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4:27pm Fri 10 Feb 12
dom jolly wrote:Whats all that about? Get a grip man.It's a pie for gods sake.& you'd rather eat dog muck? You've tried dog Sh1t then have you. get to Darwen & feast yourself as their streets are full of the stuff. Knob head!!!!!
****, i was praying hollands would go under bunch of arrogant pr***s i'd rather eat dog muck than what they make, oh hang on-dog muck/hollands pies?
gerry lines
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7:37pm Tue 28 Feb 12
the new steak puds are crap as well get rid of the managers to save the workforce never any good since 6 years ago
gerry lines
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7:39pm Tue 28 Feb 12
harrythehamster wrote:yes i aggre horrible pies time hollands went!!!
dom jolly wrote:Whats all that about? Get a grip man.It's a pie for gods sake.& you'd rather eat dog muck? You've tried dog Sh1t then have you. get to Darwen & feast yourself as their streets are full of the stuff. Knob head!!!!!
****, i was praying hollands would go under bunch of arrogant pr***s i'd rather eat dog muck than what they make, oh hang on-dog muck/hollands pies?
carrman2 says...
5:34pm Tue 31 Jan 12